Tag Archives: Military Madness
Resisting Drone Terror: Behind the Scenes of Shut Down Creech!
This fall will mark the 12th year CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace and allies have gathered at Creech Air Force Base for weeklong, nonviolent actions to resist the U.S. drone assassination program! About Shut Down Creech! Shut Down Creech! is a national mobilization of nonviolent resistance to shut down killer drone operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, […]
Hedges: The Price of Conscience
“…by criminalizing those within the system who seek to inform the public is ominous for our democracy. It is effectively extinguishing all investigations into the inner workings of power.”
The Last Time Democracy Almost Died, by Jill Lepore
“It’s a paradox of democracy that the best way to defend it is to attack it, to ask more of it, by way of criticism, protest, and dissent.”
Media Applaud the New Cold Wars—but Could US Be More Aggressive, Please? by Gregory Shupak
“US media are fixin’ for a fight with China, Russia—or both.”
Celebrating Fifty Years of an Individual’s Courage in an Era of Apathy, by Danny Sjursen
“Still, there stands Daniel Ellsberg – and others like him; living and breathing correctives to any temptation towards apathy.”
Taxes Redux: More Money for War! and the Tax System is Racist!
“The Pentagon budget sucks up more than an outrageously outsized 50 percent of the total Fiscal Year 2021 discretionary budget.” and how the US tax system is racist.
A People’s Guide to the War Industry -3: Bribery and Propaganda
When war is your business, peace is your enemy, writes Christian Sorensen. Third in a five-part series on the military-industrial-congressional complex.
Henry Giroux: America Radiates Violence: Challenging the Politics of Isolated Incidents
Pandemic of violence: f we want a real debate about violence, it is crucial to understand it as part of a larger social order that enacts the abandonment of public goods, health care for all, basic social provisions, democratic values and democracy itself.
End Minnesota Complicity in the Suffering of the Palestinian People, by Lucia Wilkes Smith
General Mills/Pillsbury complicit in occupation of Palestine.
We Reject War on Foreign Soil As We Reject Police Violence Here!
Just as we oppose the use of the U.S. military in other countries, we also reject the violence enacted by militarized personnel responding to protest in the Twin Cities and the nation. WAMM Newsletter Summer 2020 Vol. 38 Num. 3 “Effective war propaganda has caused Americans to either forget or apparently have a hard time […]
Flight 752 Out of Tehran
“It seems reasonable to speculate that in the early hours of January 8 a calamitous incident was contrived to happen.”
After-Holiday Blues and an Action to Chase Them Away, By Polly Mann with Mary Beaudoin
Another action to take: Don’t Iraq Iran. Protests continue nationwide. Ironically, we have heard from the one of the greatest purveyors of propaganda, the Washington Post, that we are lied to about war. But with the release of the series “Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War” by Craig Whitlock, you would think that […]
New U.S. Nuclear Bombs Heading for Europe: What Can Stop Them?
It’s worth remarking that fires from even a very “limited” use of a small number of modern nuclear weapons would create so much soot and ash that the consequent collapse of agriculture could cause the famine death of two billion people. By Nukewatch staff Women Against Military Madness Newsletter Vol. 37 No. 2 Spring 2019 […]
Report from the First International Conference Against US/NATO Military Bases, by WAMM
US military domination worldwide. Is it necessary? Negative effects on countries with US bases.
How the Empire Gets Away With Expanding (Some Observations)
Americans who dissent – that is, who are opposed to war – are branded supporters of the targeted government’s legitimate leadership.
Iran in the Crosshairs-Again! Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
It is not clear how insane U.S. policy can get under Trump’s leadership, or that of his warhawk advisors.
It’s time to transform the “War Economy” into a “Peace Economy” that values all humanity!
We must dare to speak out in support of those American war resisters, the real military heros…
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